40 Movies We Hope to See at Cannes 2021, from Jane Campion to Claire Denis IndieWire 5 days ago
Sorry, Oscars: For decades, the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival has been the ultimate source of anticipation by movie lovers worldwide. No festival on Earth has commanded the same blend of cinephilia and red carpet glamour, as films from some of the most revered directors working today announce their arrival in front of the world’s most discerning audience.
But will that audience show up for the 2021 edition, which has been pushed from its usual May dates to early July? After last year’s festival was canceled due to the pandemic and Cannes could only announce an amorphous list of films, the plan for this year’s edition remains an open question. Though the festival is messaging a full-steam-ahead approach, France remains on lockdown and it’s unclear whether the situation will improve enough for a traditional festival gathering.
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“Dissecting Horror” Now Continues with THE BANISHING Creatives Today at 2 PM (PST)
Another installment of our free virtual panel series Dissecting Horror is set for TODAY at 2 PM (PST) with the creatives behind THE BANISHING, now on Shudder! By Josh Millican
The Banishing today (Tuesday, April 20th) at 2 pm PST!
Synopsis:
From acclaimed director Chris Smith (Creep, Severance, Triangle) comes The Banishing, which tells the true story of the most haunted house in England. A young reverend and his wife and daughter move into a manor with a horrifying secret. A
vengeful spirit haunts the little girl and threatens to tear the family apart. So t
“By turns fuzzy-dreamy and jarringly vivid” was how the Hollywood Reporter described Sarah’s cinematography on
Flatland, Jenna Bass’ contemporary feminist western set in South Africa’s Karoo desert, which in 2019 opened the Panorama programme of the Berlinale and won best African feature at the Jo’burg International Film Festival. In 2017 Sarah’s 1st feature, Miguel Clara Vasconcelos’
Encontro Silencioso, won Best Portuguese Feature at IndieLisboa, the country’s largest national film festival. Her third feature,
The Banishing, is a UK production.
Sarah’s work has screened in festivals all over the world, from Berlin to Cannes, Toronto to Rio. Her two self-directed documentaries,
An essential element of youth is movement. Where are we
going? What are we doing when we get there? There’s an energy to the hazy days
of those teenage years that’s hard to capture on film a sense of constant
motion toward an uncertain future. It’s often a push and pull between what we
want to do and what we’re ready for, as phrased in the song that gives Andrea
Arnold’s “American Honey” its name: “Steady as a preacher/Free as a weed/Couldn’t
wait to get goin’/But wasn’t quite ready to leave.” This brilliant European
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